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The XFree86 Fork() Saga Continues

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-details dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "An article up on OSNews about the XFree story mentioned earlier. Included is: replacing fontconfig with Sun's stsf; XFree86 co-founder David Wexelblat saying that XFree is today obsolete and should be changed; Keith Packard replying, and more."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp my arrrrrsssseeeee

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I fucking did it! I'm the king of the world! *spunk*!

    2. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I had second post on the first war story. And it was anti-american.

      So kiss my ass, troll wannabe.

  2. Re:huk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, I beat you with my witty "aaarrrrseee" troll.

  3. Re:fork(), not Fork() by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All this fork()ing is making me want to touch(1) myself.

  4. Re:Bad Link by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shouldn't that be "when EDITORS are dumb"?

  5. Re:Helpful tip. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Baghdad, Saturday, March 22nd, 2003, 4:30 AM:

    B____________B
    O__/((()))\__O
    M_(|(|()|)|)_M
    B__\\(())//__B
    !____||||____!

    Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)

  6. Re:Bad Link by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Troll

    Umm, actually i think it should be "editors are DUMB"

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  7. J't'aime patrie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Go away la silly English!
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  8. Re:Could this be it? by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you want a crappy, non-portable, inflexible, unstable OS, why not just run Windows?

    I don't see any "responsiveness" problem in XFree. But, I'm not using it to play games.

  9. Re:The old "no blood for oil" troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I agree that the war is probably not all about oil, in fact I have a hard time figuring out what it's about at all. However, if Iraq were allowed to sell oil what makes you think it'd be cheap(er)? I'd imagine they would get back in with OPEC, an arrangement that seems to have suited them just fine for many years. I don't see how that would improve anything from our end, unless that oil were somehow kept out of OPEC (gee, how could we do that?). Now do you see why some people think it's about oil?

  10. Re:Bad Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    John Carmack fan, browsing at +5 since 1999.

    LIAR!

  11. Re:Bad Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hos is this redundant? He got there first.